Yanagawa City

A six-boat stage moves along the canals.

Sanjinmaru, Suitengu boat stage

Photo by NY066 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Former Toshima Residence

For the view, no pillar stands at thesoutheast corner of the room's veranda.

Yoshida Kanetomo, a senior retainer of the Yanagawa domain, built this two-storey reed-thatched house with its garden as his retirement home, said to date from 1828 (Bunsei 11). Water from the Yanagawa castle moat is drawn into the pond garden. The house was donated to the city in 2001 and opened to the public in April 2004.

Building: prefectural Important Cultural Property (structure; designated April 5, 1957)
Garden: national Place of Scenic Beauty (designated August 25, 1978)
Said to date from 1828 (Bunsei 11)
Opened as a public cultural property in April 2004

02 ／ Nakayama no Ofuji (Great Wisteria)

A wisteria about 300 years old, said to growfrom Noda wisteria seed a brewer brought back.

This Noda wisteria (ノダフジ) stands in the grounds of Kumano Shrine in Nakayama, Mihashi. One plant splits in two at ground level, and about 11 vines, each 15 cm or more around, spread out. It is said that in the Kyoho era (1716-1735) a sake brewer called "Man-san" (萬さん) brought seeds back from Kamigata (the Kyoto-Osaka area) and planted them, and that it was later dedicated to Kumano Shrine.

Prefectural Natural Monument (designated April 9, 1977)
A Noda wisteria about 300 years old (prefectural designation text)
In full bloom in mid to late April every year (city tourism section)

03 ／ Ando Seian and Zhu Shunshui

A Confucian official who kept sending half his stipendto Zhu Shunshui, an exile from Ming China.

Ando Seian was born in Honmachi in 1622 (Genna 8) and, after returning to Yanagawa at 38, taught the youth of the domain as a Confucian official. He befriended Zhu Shunshui, who had fled from Ming China to Nagasaki, and kept sending him half of his stipend. The three Confucius statues Shunshui gave him are kept by the Ando family, at Yushima Seido and at Denshukan High School.

His grave at Jokaji Temple is a prefectural historic site
Born in 1622 (Genna 8)
Kept sending half of his own stipend
Three Confucius statues were given to him

Living here

Reclamation using the Ariake Sea's tidal range is thought to date back to the 13th century.

about 60,000 people

Reclamation using the tidal range of the Ariake Sea is thought to have been carried out in this region as early as the 13th century. Starting from the reclamation dike "Keicho Hondoi," thought to have been completed after Tanaka Yoshimasa ordered the reinforcement of the embankment in 1602 (Keicho 7), later reclamation went on, and the Yanagawa domain achieved 2,540 cho of reclaimed land by the early Meiji period.

People living here: 64,475people
Area: 77.15km²
Households: 24,114households
Rent (average for rentals): 44,245yen
Healthcare: 6 hospitals ／ 59 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-03-21 に合併。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —19 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Surrounded by 5 municipalities, and almost entirely flat.

Yanagawa City in Japan33.163°N 130.406°E

Territory of Yanagawa City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

12.2km

Fukuoka Prefecture: みやま市, 大川市, 大木町, 筑後市
Saga Prefecture: 佐賀市

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Yanagawa City isthis kind of town.

01Sanjinmaru (三神丸) is the boat stage of the Okinohata Suitengu Festival, held every year from May 3 to 5, made of six boats joined together. For three days and nights it moves along the canals as festival music and plays are dedicated.
02Kitahara Hakushu (北原白秋), whose birthplace is in Okinohata, left many works based on the Suitengu festival. The Tachibana Residence Garden (立花氏庭園), a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty, was the residence of the Tachibana family, the former lords of the Yanagawa domain. At the autumn grand festival of Mihashira Shrine (三柱神社), "Onigie" (おにぎえ), the float "Dorotsukudon" (ドロツクドン) leads the procession. The hall of Unryu Hisakichi (雲龍久吉), the 10th yokozuna, born in Sarakaki, Yamato-machi, "Unryu-no-Yakata" (雲龍の館), is also here.
03A city facing the Ariake Sea, formed in 2005 by the merger of Yanagawa City and the towns of Yamato and Mihashi. It has river cruises down the canals in donko boats (どんこ舟) and the Sagemon tour (さげもんめぐり) of the hanging hina decorations unique to the Yanagawa area.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Yanagawa City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗